concoct

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to prepare or cook by mixing ingredients

   Concoct a strange mixture.

Simplified etymology

Concoct entered English in the mid-16th century and ultimately comes from Latin coquus, the root meaning “cook” that also gave rise to cook.

From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”).

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